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“But it was very rewarding to see audiences reacting and understanding of the kind of emotion, everything that I poured from my heart into that piece.” “For me, producing it was a very vulnerable process,” said Barbee, who will minor in dance at Boston College next year. She called “Truce” a very intense number. Taylor Barbee, another dance company senior from Huntington Beach High, was fortunate enough to get one of her own pieces into the show. “It shows us the lengths and possibilities of what our careers could become in the future. “It’s really cool to have choreographers like that who also trained under Marie,” Ganier said. They include Destiny Churchwell, a 2009 HBAPA graduate who choreographed a modern piece called “Origins.”Ĭhurchwell is now dancing professionally in New York. Many of the pieces have guest choreographers. “The Side Door” is a contemporary piece which features different duets of dance company performers with chairs, Hoffman said. While it’s grueling, it’s very fun to perform.” “I don’t go off stage for the entire seven minutes. “The opening piece has become a favorite to me,” said Ganier, who is headed to UC Irvine as a dance major next year. That comes through from the first piece - the seven-minute-long “Irreconcilable Differences” - to the last of the show, the funky “Miss Honey,” which features dancers dressed in silver and going into the pit in front of the stage. ‘Synergy’ is such an explosion of passion and emotion.” But their love for what they do, their love for each other as people, their love for this program, you can feel it. They’re obviously brilliant technicians the execution borders on perfection. I think the passion of these dancers, it’s what people comment on most often.

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In my opinion, it is a professional caliber dance concert in a state-of-the-art theater. “It’s very beautifully produced, brilliantly danced. “It’s got something for everybody,” said show director Marie Hoffman, who oversees the HBAPA dance company ensemble. It features several pieces from the experienced dance company, as well as two pieces each from the tap, jazz, ballet and modern dance ensembles.

“Synergy” will take place in the Huntington Beach Union High School Historic Theater, with a show Friday night and two more Saturday. The dance department presents HBAPA’s final show of the school year this weekend.

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